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Schools History Project
New Teachers’
Conference30th January 2021
Inspiring professional
development for new history teachers
The Schools History Project New Teachers’ Conference 2021
Hello, Being a new teacher is tough. There are so many challenges: planning, teaching, marking… There are so many things to balance: subject knowledge and teaching techniques, pupil-engagement and exams and assessments… It can sometimes feel that you are expected to be a historian, a moral philosopher, a psychologist, a social worker and an administrator whilst also having to do break duty in the rain. Sadly, there are few easy answers and even fewer quick-fix solutions. No matter how good your training, there is always more to learn. That is why the Schools History Project, supported by Hodder Education, has put together its first New Teachers’ Conference. It includes a round-table discussion, two brilliant plenary talks, a case for the SHP GCSE and four practical yet inspiring workshops to help you meet some of the challenges that new teachers face. Our line-up features brilliant history teachers and history teacher-educators who between them have decades of classroom experience. They all want to share their wisdom and knowledge with as many people as possible to help build and develop a community of history teachers who can help each other to inspire and support young people with this most vital of subjects. I hope that you find these sessions both thought-provoking and practically useful. I hope it provides some support to allow you to help your students achieve the best they can. I hope that you will consider attending the annual SHP Summer Conference in July. However, than that, I hope that you see this as a way into some of the profession’s current debates and discussions – conversations that need your voice and your contributions in order to help us all be the best history teachers we can for the sake of the young people who depend on us to begin to understand themselves in time. Enjoy the conference!
Matt Stanford Director Schools History Project
Schedule
Saturday 30 January 2021
Round Table
Discussion
10:00-11:00
Getting Through and Getting On: A Discussion of the
Problems and Opportunities Faced by New Teachers
Jess Angell, Katharine Burn, Gemma Hollingsworth and
Claire Moody
Workshop A
11:30-12:45
How to Plan Better Lessons
Sally Thorne
OR
Five Ideas Things That Made Me a Better Teacher
Sally Burnham
Workshop B
13:30-14:45
Practical Tips for Better History Lessons
Dale Banham
OR
What does it mean to get better at history and how do
I know my students are doing it?
Hannah Cusworth
Presentation
15:00-15:30
What is special about OCR GCSE History B
OCR Subject Officers and SHP Regional Advisors – Mike
Goddard, Emily Oakes and Grant Robertson, and Stuart
Farley, Alex Ford and Luke Mayhew
Plenary A
15:45-17:15
A Q&A on Medieval History
Dr Marc Morris
Plenary B
19:00-20:00
You are not alone: What is the ‘history-teaching
community’ where did it come from and what should
it look like in the future?
Alex Ford
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Programme
Getting Through and Getting On: A Discussion of the
Problems and Opportunities Faced by New Teachers
Round Table Discussion
10:00-11:00
Jess Angell, Katharine Burn, Gemma
Hollingsworth and Claire Moody
This round-table discussion features talented people from very different stages
in their careers. Together, they will talk through some of the issues that you face
as a new teacher and some of the opportunities open to you. They will share
experiences and inspiration to reassure you that it is possible to get through one
of the toughest parts of your career and indicate some paths to success.
How to Plan Better Lessons
Workshop A Option 1
11:30-12:45 Sally Thorne
Planning is one of the most important and most difficult parts of teaching. There
are so many things to balance: What are students learning? What are students
thinking? What are students doing? How can we make sure that all students can
access the lesson? How can we make sure that our lessons are engaging?
Sally Thorne has some answers. In this session, she will talk about some
principles of good lesson planning and share some practical ideas that will help
you plan and deliver excellent lessons.
Five Ideas Things That Made Me a Better Teacher
Workshop A Option 2
11:30-12:45 Sally Burnham
One of the many joys of being a history teacher is that you never stop learning
and the wealth of experience that is available to us through the History subject
community can sometimes be slightly overwhelming. In this session Sally will
look at just 5 ideas that have really shaped her teaching since she completed her
PGCE, how she went about implementing the ideas into her teaching, and how
she evaluated their impact.
Practical Tips for Better History Lessons
Workshop B Option 1
13:30-14:45 Dale Banham
Looking for practical ideas to make your lessons more effective? In his
inspirational session, Dale Banham brings years of experience of teaching and
advising to offer useful ideas that will help make your lessons more engaging and
more intriguing by keeping good history at their heart. He will show how a ‘can-
do’ attitude can be developed to help students to think historically and write
better to express that thinking. There will also be tips to help students retain,
retrieve and revise knowledge they need to succeed. Finally, Dale will also reflect
upon wider curricular issues and what they might mean to your school and your
students.
What does it mean to get better at history and how do I
know my students are doing it?
Workshop B Option 2
13:30-14:45 Hannah Cusworth
What does it mean to get better at history? Of course we all want to help our
students get good GCSE and A Level results but being ‘good’ at history is much
more than that. In this session, Hannah Cusworth will help you think about what
students making progress in history might look like and how it relates to the
curriculum that is being taught. She will explain how her school tries to assess
this in a meaningful way and the challenges they still face. She will also offer
some strategies for early-career teachers to stay sane in the face of the many
demands often made around curriculum and assessment
What is special about OCR GCSE History B?
Presentation
15:00-15:30
OCR Subject Officers and SHP Regional
Advisors – Mike Goddard, Emily Oakes
and Grant Robertson, and Stuart
Farley, Alex Ford and Luke Mayhew
This session is an unashamed advert for what is, we at SHP truly believe, the best
GCSE course available – OCR History B (Schools History Project).
The Schools History Project is unique in that it is the only organisation, other
than the exam boards, that endorses a GCSE syllabus. In this session, we hope to
show you what is special about this course, not only in the specification but in
the support that is available to schools who choose it. The session will be
presented by subject advisers from the OCR exam board and some of the SHP
Regional Advisers whose role is support the networks of schools who have
chosen this brilliant and flexible course for their students.
A Q&A on Medieval History
Plenary A
15:45-17:15 Dr Marc Morris
Medieval history is something that almost every history teacher will teach at
some point in their careers, whether it is in Year 7, Year 13 or somewhere in
between. However, it can be very hard to teach well. Romantic fairy-tale images,
the limitations of the sources and very different ways of seeing the world can
sometimes, despite our best intentions, create in our classrooms a version of the
middle ages that is more Monty Python than medieval; more 'Disney princess'
than something that reflects the actual people's actual lives and the political and
social changes that wrought consequences we still feel today.
The only antidote is good historical knowledge and this is what Marc Morris has
in abundance. As one the very best authors on this period, we are delighted that
he has given us his time in order to answer your questions about British
medieval history between c.400 and c.1300. Whether you want to know more
about history-changing events, political developments, important personalities
or medieval sources you can submit your questions via this form and Dr Morris
will endeavour to help you bring to life this fascinating, important and ubiquitous
part of history.
Fighting for what we believe: the power and responsibility of
being part of a principled community of practice
Plenary B
19:00-20:00 Alex Ford
In this plenary session, Alex explores the ways in which communities of practice
enable us to grow as teachers. He outlines some of the ways in which history
teachers can empower students and be empowered by their subject
communities. He also focuses on some of the challenges history teacher face in
building principled, diverse and inclusive communities with the power to impact
our society.
Contributors
Jess Angell
Head of History, Jess Angell, joined Cambourne Village
College in 2016. Jess strongly believes that the study of
History can and should be for everybody, and she has
engaged academics in a series of lectures for pupils, parents,
and the wider community. Her enthusiasm for trips and visits
sees them tied tightly to the curriculum, which also has
reading at its heart.
Dale Banham
Dale Banham is a Deputy Headteacher (Curriculum, CPD and
Teaching & Learning) at Northgate High School, a
large 11-18 comprehensive in Ipswich. Before that he worked
as a Head of History and as the County Adviser
for Humanities in Suffolk. Dale has also worked as a history
education consultant for the Imperial War
Museum, the BBC and St John’s College Cambridge. He
regularly contributes workshops to a range of teacher
training courses and he has published a number of articles in
Teaching History and Debates in History Teaching
that explore how to help students engage with the past,
achieve success and develop the confidence to think
and write like a historian.
Dale is an Honorary Fellow of the Schools History Project. He
worked with Chris Culpin and Ian Dawson as a series editor on
the SHP Key Stage 3 series of textbooks, published between
2008 and 2009. After the
introduction of new GCSE specifications, Dale worked with Ian
Dawson on a series of textbooks for Edexcel’s
GCSE History specification. He has recently published a new
set of textbooks for Hodder Education’s Engaging
with AQA GCSE History series, which aims to make history
accessible and enjoyable for all students.
Katharine Burn
Katharine Burn is Associate Professor of Education at the
University of Oxford, where she works as the PGCE
Partnership Director and coordinates the university’s
knowledge exchange partnership with local schools, which is
committed to supporting teachers’ continued engagement in
and with research. She also teaches on the part-time MSc in
Learning and Teaching, as well as researching, and supervising
Masters and doctoral students in the fields of history
education and teachers’ professional learning. She is a Fellow
of the Schools History Project and Deputy President of the
Historical Association. She is also an editor of Teaching
History and loves supporting teachers in sharing their practice
and learning with one another.
Sally Burnham
Sally Burnham is a History teacher at an 11-18 school in
Lincolnshire. She is also part time PGCE tutor at the University
of Nottingham. As well as her teaching commitments, Sally is
an SHP Fellow and a member of the Historical Association
Secondary Committee.
Hannah Cusworth
Hannah Cusworth is Head of History at The Charter School
East Dulwich. She began teaching in 2012 and has taught in a
number of London academies.
At her current school, Hannah has led the creation of a
curriculum that embraces migration stories and the history of
empire and race. She regularly contributes to CPD in the
History community, including workshops for the Historical
Association and the Schools History Project.
This summer, she contributed three sets of lessons to the Oak
National Academy which focused on Mansa Musa, British
America and the ‘forgotten armies’ of the First World War.
She tweets @hannahcusworth
Stuart Farley
Stuart Farley is Head of History at Upper Shirley High School
in Southampton, where we enjoy teaching the OCR SHP B
specification. The diverse topics, strong enquiry focus, local
case studies and interpretations really engage our students.
Stuart is also a Lead Teacher on the Hampshire History
Steering Group and SHP Regional Advisor for the South East.
Alex Ford
Alex Ford is an SHP Fellow and PGCE History Tutor at Leeds
Trinity University. He is keen to ensure that all students
experience rich and diverse histories, whatever their
background. Alex believes firmly in the importance of subject-
specific training to enable this and has been on the subject
advisory group for the new Ofsted framework.
Alex was previously Head of History at two contrasting
comprehensive schools in Yorkshire. He has written textbooks
for Key Stage 3 and GCSE students and writes the blog
www.andallthat.co.uk. He can be found on Twitter @apf102
Gemma Hollingsworth
Gemma Hollingsworth has been teaching History in inner city
Bradford for three years in a large secondary school covering
Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. Her interests include the long
Eighteenth Century, in particular the role of women in society
and the rise of masculinity. She has a passion for curriculum
development and planning enquiry-based schemes of work
which resonate with the diverse school community.
Mike Goddard
Mike is a history subject advisor and has worked at OCR on
the history portfolio since 2007. Previously he has held roles
at Cambridge International Examinations and for an
educational publisher. Mike has a degree in Economic and
Social History from the University of York and a Masters in
Modern History from UCL. In his spare time, he enjoys
crosswords and snooker.
Luke Mayhew
Luke has taught in several schools in Norfolk over the past 15
years. Throughout this time, he has embraced the central
values of the Schools History Project, with a particular passion
for embedding local history within his lessons to make history
really relevant to pupils.
Claire Moody
Claire Moody is a History NQT at Murray Park Community
School in Derbyshire and completed her PGCE at the
University of Nottingham.
Marc Morris
Dr Marc Morris is a historian and broadcaster, specialising in
the Middle Ages. He is the author of a series of peerless books
on medieval England - King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the
Road to Magna Carta, The Norman Conquest, A Great and
Terrible King: Edward I and the forging of Britain and the
'Penguin Monarchs' biography of William I. He has also
presented and appeared on other television shows such
as Castle for Channel 4 and wrote its accompanying book. An
expert on medieval monarchy and aristocracy, and a fellow of
the Royal Historical Society, Marc has written numerous
articles for History Today, BBC History Magazine and Heritage
Today. He is about to publish his new book Anglo-Saxons: A
History of the Beginnings of England will be published in May
2021. He can be found on Twitter @longshanks1307.
Emily Oakes
Emily Oakes is a Subject Advisor for History. She has 13 years’
experience teaching & leading in history and as a Head of
Sixth Form in the UK along with 2 years teaching at an
international school in France. Emily has a BA in Archaeology
from UCL and a MA in Medieval History from UEA along with
a PGCE from University of Cambridge. When she’s not
working, Emily likes spending time outdoors with her family,
gardening and reading.
Grant Robertson
Grant started working at OCR in February 2014 and is a lead
subject advisor and advises on history. His degree is in History
and Politics, with a focus on modern European and African
history and 19th century political thought. Previously, Grant
was a Head of Politics, Law and Humanities in schools in Kent
and Kingston upon Thames. Outside of work he is an F1
junkie, a passionate Charlton Athletic fan and enjoys spending
time with his family.
Sally Thorne
Sally Thorne is a Head of Humanities in Bristol and has been
teaching History since 2003. She holds a leading role in
Teaching & Learning across her Trust and has published a
book about History teaching, called Becoming an Outstanding
History Teacher.
How to book Bookings can be made through the Leeds Trinity University online store (https://store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/) There are also links via the Schools History Project website (http://www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/).
Prices All tickets cost £35
Technicalities The conference will take place via Microsoft Teams. However, the easiest way to access the sessions will be through a web browser.
Enquiries If you have any further enquiries, please email [email protected].